When serving a non-Laravel project using Laravel Valet, how can I access PHP files in the public directory?

Question

I use Laravel Valet for locally serving multiple Laravel, WordPress and vanilla PHP applications.

I have one specific application that is vanilla PHP that I access via Valet from http://myapplication.test

This application has a /public/index.php file which is auto-magically displayed when I go to the test URL, as Valet knows to look in the public directory.

The problem I am having is, when I put a /public/test.php file and try to access this by going to http://myapplication.test/test.php ...it does not serve the file. Instead I am forced to go to http://myapplication.test/public/test.php

Is there any way I can fix this?

It is causing me to do an ugly duplication work-around in my codebase. In the live project, going to www.liveurl.com/test.php works, so I am having to put a second public directory inside the actual public directory to reference the file as /public/test.php everywhere in the codebase. I'd really just like to use this in the same place locally and live. I hope that makes sense.

Any help or insight appreciated. Thanks!

Can you please show your htacess file? either you've to move your htaccess file on route folder or you may change in public htacess. — Dilip Hirapara
So I am not using Laravel for this specific project, only Valet to serve locally. So I have no routes folder. I also am using a baseline Digital Ocean live server, which isn't the issue. The issue is not being able to access a php file in the public folder locally from Laravel. My local vanilla PHP project has no .htaccess file. Hope that helps explain better. — fylzero

Black Sheep Black Sheep · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-23T15:36:21

You may have to create a custom-valet-drivers for it.

Go to: ~/.config/valet/Drivers

Create PhpValetDriver.php file and paste this code:

<?php

class PhpValetDriver extends ValetDriver
{

     private $site_folder = '/public';

    /**
     * Determine if the driver serves the request.
     *
     * @param  string  $sitePath
     * @param  string  $siteName
     * @param  string  $uri
     * @return bool
     */
     public function serves($sitePath, $siteName, $uri)
     {
         if (!file_exists($sitePath.'/artisan') &&
              file_exists($sitePath.$this->site_folder.'/index.php')) {

             return true;
         }
         return false;
     }

    /**
     * Determine if the incoming request is for a static file.
     *
     * @param  string  $sitePath
     * @param  string  $siteName
     * @param  string  $uri
     * @return string|false
     */
    public function isStaticFile($sitePath, $siteName, $uri)
    {
        if (file_exists($staticFilePath = $sitePath.$this->site_folder.$uri)) {

            return $staticFilePath;
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Get the fully resolved path to the application's front controller.
     *
     * @param  string  $sitePath
     * @param  string  $siteName
     * @param  string  $uri
     * @return string
     */
    public function frontControllerPath($sitePath, $siteName, $uri)
    {
        $path = $sitePath.$this->site_folder;

        if ($uri == '/') {
            return $path.'/index.php';
        }

        return strpos($uri, '.php') ? $path.$uri : $path.$uri.'.php';
    }
}

and then: valet restart

When serving a non-Laravel project using Laravel Valet, how can I access PHP files in the public directory?

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